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Scientists Find New Painkiller From Saliva
dptalia writes "Scientists have found a new pain killer based on human saliva. Apparently 1 gram of the new drug provides as much pain blocking as 3 grams of morphine. The drug blocks the breakdown of the body's natural pain killing mechanism. Scientists say the molecule is simple and synthesis is expected to be simple."
When we complain about how aliens probe our anuses (anii?) with large metallic rods, sometimes it helps to put things into perspective by realizing that we are making rats walk around on pins until they need painkillers to block the agony.
I appreciate that the scientific process needs to go boink, but man's inhumanity to man is only outweighed by his inhumanity to animals.
I'll take the morphine, something that I know has been tested mainly on humans.
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Yeah, that's pretty much it.
I find particularly disturbing that whenever a story like this is posted no one seems to care about the horrible experiments made on animals or ridicule those who do.
I don't think any scientific finding is worth it if we have to pay with such horror and cruelty for it. Can't we advance science another way? Even if we couldn't I'd rather live in an inconvenient world.
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